Status has nothing to do with buying real estate. All you need is money.

To be legal requires employee sponsorship.

Illegals who can't speak-read-or converse in english are at a disadvantage and can be exploited but they are not slaves. Illegals who can speak-read-etc can just quit and find work with anyone who will hire them. I'll also tell you that it is a fact that our IRS will not bother an employer as long as the employer pays taxes & SS on that employee.

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Ask any H1B or illegal who hasn't read this

I have heard of people coming into the USA on a visa and then just become illegal. Lots of Asians working in Chinese restarants, for example.

To Kamal, it is permissible to mis-use the word "slave" in virtually all manner of economic situations where the individual has no money and is absolutely dependent on an employer or being exploited. All you folks out there with no money in the bank ....you're vulnerable to being exploited, but you're free to go anywhere otherwise. You don't have chains on your legs or arms, you're not behind bars.

That is understandable and not something I would debate.

Well, this is a pretty good statement. Basically anywhere in the world, there are a few rich people and more and more poor people.

Kinda like the caste system in India. The Dalits (the "untouchables") who are not even part of the caste system...have to eat dust to live. Everyone higher up gets to kick the Dalits. And, there are 250 million of them. You can find this by googling on "Dalits."

The food chain has always favored those at the top, disfavored those at the bottom.

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According to Kamal, all "enslaved labor" works harder than anyone else.

You all out there can google on "slavery in India" and get lots of hits on the rug factories in India, where its not just slaves, but child slaves.

But, you, yourself very rarely complain about executives, even Indian executives who, in the big Indian companies, are surely exploiting anyone they can. Including the Dalits who all the higher caste Hindus don't want to give any jobs to or even give an education.